ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Changes in Formal-Informal Caregiving in Elderly Stroke Survivors, Holly Anne Beard
Thesis: The Bachelor Primetime Construction of Romance, Fairy Tales, and Melodrama, Susan E. Beck
Dissertation: Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Earliness and Tardiness Over a Common Due Date, Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia
Dissertation: Modeling Habitat and Environmental Factors Affecting Mosquito Abundance in Chesapeake, Virginia, Alan Scott Bellows
Thesis: Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression, Gina M. Bondi
Dissertation: Uncertainty Assessment in High-Risk Environments Using Probability, Evidence Theory and Expert Judgment Elicitation, Stella Barberis Bondi
Dissertation: Fatigue's Influence on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance in a Military Simulation of Combat, Carlotta M. Boone
Dissertation: Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition, Chutima Boonthum
Thesis: Assessment of High School Athletic Coaches Knowledge of the Prevention Recognition and Treatment of Heat Illnesses, Erica Lea Borgia
Thesis: Condensed and Expanded Sections in the Lower Mesaverde Clastic Wedge, Campanian of Wyoming: Evidence for Tectonic Rectification of Sea Level, Matthew W. Botzler
Thesis: Masculine Ideology and High-Risk Behavior Among Disabled Veterans, Abby L. Braitman
Dissertation: Assessment of Preliminary Design Approaches for Metallic Stiffened Cylindrical Shell Instability Problems, Vicki Owen Britt
Dissertation: A Technique for Solving the Singular Integral Equations of Potential Theory, Brian George Burns
Dissertation: The A-B Signal Detection Theory Model, Ernesto A. Bustamante
Thesis: College Students Online: An Exploration of the Benefits and Risks of Social Networking Sites, Catherine Blair Parker Butler
Thesis: Social Disadvantage and Family Violence: Neighborhood Effects on Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment, Deeanna M. Button
Dissertation: An Identity Approach to Understanding Diversity, Inclusion and the Work-Family Interface, Rebekah A. Cardenas
Thesis: Investigating Real-Time Sonar Performance Predictions Using Beowulf Clustering, Charles Lane Cartledge
Dissertation: Analysis of Determinants in Neighborhood Satisfaction Between Defended and Defensible Communities Within the General and Urban Housing Environments, David William Chapman
Thesis: The Effects of Collective Efficacy and Dissatisfaction With Law Enforcement on Neighborhood Crime Rates, Kelly E. Cobb
Thesis: Ideological Transference in the Barbary Captivity Literature of Post-Revolutionary America, Jason Scott Cooke
Thesis: Effects of Five Different Finger Rest Positions on Arm Muscle Activity During Scaling by Dental Hygiene Students, Mary Elizabeth Cosaboom
Thesis: Learning to Fly: Military Aviation Training at Middle Tennessee State University and the Transformation of Southern Higher Education in World War II, Christopher T. Crawford Jr.
Dissertation: The Potential Influence of Motivation on the Decision to Stay or Quit the Navy Delayed Entry Program: A Descriptive Analysis, Angela W. Cyrus
Thesis: Fin De Siecle 3.0: Cybernetic Anxieties in Posthuman Science Fiction, Jessica L. Dambruch
Thesis: Duchampian Authenticity and the Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill
Thesis: Dynamic Routing Structure for an RTI Taking an Evolutionary Approach Towards Optimization, Matthew Ryan Davis
Thesis: The Clouds are Buffalo Stampeding Toward Jesus, Natalie G. Diaz
Thesis: The People Who Live on Lambert Lane, Natalie G. Diaz
Dissertation: Methodology for Analyzing and Characterizing Error Generation in Presence of Autocorrelated Demands in Stochastic Inventory Models, Rafael Diaz
Thesis: Standing Before the Stranger, Jonathan G. Dillion
Thesis: Employers Preferences: What Type of Employers Are Hiring Ex-Offenders?, Gia M. Dyke
Dissertation: Foundation Year Field Instruction in a Master of Social Work Program: A Comparison Study of Learning Outcomes for On-Campus and Off-Campus Students, Martha T. Early
Dissertation: Propulsion Enhancement Contributions to the Performance of Space Launch Vehicles, Russell H. Edwards
Thesis: The Tactical Flexibility of the Union Cavalry: How Modern Firearms Changed the Federal Cavalry, Peter J. Francione
Thesis: Simulation and Thermo-Economic Analysis of a Solar-Assisted Heat Pump System for Domestic Water Heating Application, Vaibhav D. Gagrani
Thesis: Distributed Cluster-Based Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Swetha Gali
Thesis: Eve's Side, Rebecca Lauren Gidjunis
Dissertation: Judicial Implementation of the Revised Family Code in Addis Ababa, Tassew Shiferaw Gizaw
Thesis: Behavioral Enhancement of Onshore Transport by Postlarval Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus Argus), Jason Seth Goldstein
Thesis: Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11b Devices in the Presence of Interference Aware Scheduling-Adaptive Frequency Hopping Enabled Bluetooth Devices, Deepthi Gopalpet
Thesis: The Effect of Intensity of Aerobic VO2max Resting Heart Rate and Blood Pressure, Shannan Elizabeth Gormley
Thesis: The Depiction of Alcohol Tobacco and Other Substances in Children's G & PG-Rated Animated Films Post 2000, Lindsay F. Graham
Thesis: A Modular Kernel Linear Discriminant Analysis of Gabor Features for Improved Face Recognition, Neeharika Gudur
Thesis: An Exploration of the Influence of Recreation Benefits and Use of Public Parks: The Impact on Sense of Community in Neighborhoods, Svetoslav Dimov Gueorguiev
Thesis: Simulation to Augment Standardized Patients in Obstetric Ultrasound Training, Scott Richard Guirlinger
Dissertation: Neighborhood Defined Feature Selection Strategy for Improved Face Recognition in Different Sensor Modalitie, Satyanadh Gundimada
Dissertation: Shaken Baby Syndrome: Retinal Hemorrhaging. A Biomechanical Approach to Understanding the Mechanism of Causation, Steven Alex Hans
Dissertation: Revitalizing Deteriorated Urban Neighborhood Real Estate Markets Through Concentrated Homeownership Development: Determining the Spillover Effects of New Homes on the Value of Surrounding Homes, Jerry Michael Hawkins
Thesis: What Should Be in a Human Behavior Representation Federation Object Model for High Level Architecture, Gurkan Haznedaroglu
Dissertation: Self-Assembly and Characterization of Germanium Quantum Dots on Silicon by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mohammed S. Hegazy
Thesis: Curricular Satisfaction Levels of NATA Accredited Post-Professional Athletic Training Graduates, Kevin J. Henry
Thesis: No One's Devil Dog, Matthew C. Hillery
Thesis: Aerodynamic and Acoustic Investigations of an Advanced Over-The-Wing Nacelle Transport Aircraft Configuration, Geoffrey A. Hill
Dissertation: The Effect of Nutrition Information on Menu Selection When Eating Food Away From Home, Rebecca Foster Hochradel
Dissertation: Seagrass-Mediated Carbonate Dissolution and Early Diagenesis in Bahamas Bank Sediments, Xinping Hu
Dissertation: Adsorption of Lead (II) Ions by Organosilicate Nanoporous Materials, Larry Keith Isaacs
Dissertation: Prediction of interference Pathloss Inside Commercial Aircraft Using Modulated Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Madiha Jamil Jafri
Dissertation: The Impact of Intercultural Training on the Satisfaction and Achievement of Undergraduates Taught by International Teaching Assistants, Kirsten Jensen
Thesis: An Examination of Sport Commitment of Windsurfers, Jung-Hwan Jeon
Dissertation: Down-Regulation of Natural Killer Cell Activation in Response to Influenza Virus in Older Adults, Yu Jing
Dissertation: The Computation of Exact Green's Functions in Acoustic Analogy By a Spectral Collocation Boundary Element Method, Andrea D. Jones
Thesis: Leisure Constraints Ethnic Factors and Recreation Participation: A Case Study of the Latino Population in Manassas Park, Virginia, Gregory T. Jones
Thesis: The Effect of Instruction of Jump-Landing Motion Patterns And Impact Forces, Mary Elizabeth Joos
Thesis: Complexity, Fine-Tuning, and Multiple Universes: The Insufficiency of Scientific Theories for Determining Metaphysical Views, Ashley Graham Kennedy
Dissertation: Sonic Boom Focusing Prediction and Delta Wing Shape Optimization for Boom Mitigation Studies, Nitin Khasdeo
Thesis: Active Control of Nonlinear Panel Flutter at Supersonic Speed Using Aeroelastic Modes and Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Actuators Under Yawed Flow Angle, Myounghee Kim
Dissertation: Coopetition (Contemporaneous Cooperation and Competition) Among Nonprofit Arts Organizations: The Case of Symphony Orchestras, Theresa A. Kirchner
Dissertation: Using Principles of Momentum Conservation to Develop a Coastal Storm Impulse Scale (COSI), Chris Adam Klentzman
Dissertation: Micro Synthetic Jets as Effective Actuator, Mehti Koklu
Thesis: PARMELA Based Simulations on Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser Injector, Deepesh Kumar Koppunuru
Thesis: A Wavelet Based Complementary Approach for Image Enhancement, Ismail Kosum
Dissertation: Methods of Detecting Differential Item Functioning: A Comparison of Confirmatory Factor Analysis Methods, Jenny Chia Yi Kuang
Thesis: The Plasmodium Falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter, PFCRT, Mediates the Activity of Chloroquine-Resistance Reversal Agents in the Malaria Parasite, Kristin Lane
Thesis: Salt Fluxes at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Ruth Lane
Thesis: Who Should Patients Turn To? A Look at Caregivers' Willingness to Perform Various Caregiving Tasks for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Melina L. Laroco
Dissertation: Costly Arbitrage and the Lead-Lag Structure Between Value and Glamour Stocks, Meng Li
Dissertation: Two Essays on Corporate Spin-Offs, YingChou Lin
Thesis: Integrating Game Technology and Discrete Event Simulation to Analyze Mass Casualty Scenarios, Jason Loveland
Dissertation: The Middle Class and Political Change in China: Chinese Middle Class's Attitudinal and Behavioral Orientations Toward Democracy, Chunlong Lu
Thesis: Neighborhood Defined Adaboost Based Mixture of Color Components for Efficient Skin Segmentation, Ramya Reddy Maaram
Dissertation: Molecular Phylogenetics of Perciform Fishes Using the Nuclear Recombination Activating Gene 1, Andrew R. Mahon
Dissertation: Quo Vadis? Polish-Ukrainian Relations in the Enlarging Europe, 1991–2004, Anna Makhorkina
Dissertation: Development of a Coupled Fluid/Structure Aeroelastic Solver with Applications to Vortex Breakdown-Induced Twin Tail Buffeting, Steven J. Massey
Dissertation: The Distributed Independent-Platform Event-Driven Simulation Engine Library (DIESEL), Reejo Mathew
Thesis: Detecting Compromised Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks, Mary Lisa Mathews
Thesis: Electroactive Polymers (EAP): Simulation Studies of the Actuation Mechanisms in a Cantilever Cellulose Electroactive Paper, Fatim A. Mbaye
Dissertation: Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure, Frank McCown
Thesis: The Influence of Color on the Teaching of Juggling to Elementary School Children, Anne C. McCoy
Thesis: The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico, Sarah Marie McCoy
Dissertation: Psychometric Evaluation of an instrument for Assessing Policy Outcomes for Families with Children Who Have Severe Developmental Disabilities: The Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale, Joni Taylor McFelea
Dissertation: Plant Assemblage Structure on Barrier Island ‘Pimple’ Dunes at the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Site, Brett A. McMillan
Dissertation: A Risk- and Fuzzy Set-Based Methodology for Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration Military Utility Assessment Design, Thomas James Meyers
Dissertation: Development of Fast, Distributed Computational Schemes for Full Body Bio-Models and Their Application to Novel Action Potential Block in Nerves Using Ultra-Short, High Intensity Electric Pulses, Ashutosh Mishra
Thesis: Simulation, Visualization and Self-Assessment Tools for Enhanced Engineering Education The Stiffness Matrix Method Module for Structural Analysis, Ahmed Ali Mohammed
Thesis: Through the Dark Woods, Letitia A. Montgomery-Rodgers
Thesis: Flaws in the Armor of the Grand Illusion: Dissent, Reluctance, and Disaffection Toward the Confederate Cause in the Central Shenandoah Valley - A Study of Page County Virginia, Robert H. Moore II
Thesis: Bactericidal Effects of Cold Plasma Technology on Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus cereus Microorganisms, Angela Dawn Morris
Dissertation: Becoming a Good Neighbor in Southeast Asia: The Case of China's Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea, 1989–2006, Dirk Richard Morton
Thesis: Factor Analysis of the Borderline Personality Inventory Using Item Response Theory, Courtney Mozo